Liquid helium 3 and 4 have been a fertile substrate for this kind of exploration. I often think that the lab scale experiments will figure it out before the ul

Liquid helium 3 and 4 have been a fertile substrate for this kind of exploration. I often think that the lab scale experiments will figure it out before the ultracolliders. This 1998 article summarizes the state of the field up to that time. The rotating cryostat they used in the experiments is a masterpiece of instrument design. https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.96.14.7760 https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.96.14.7760 "Vortices in rotating superfluid 3 He" by Lounasmaa and Thuneberg Scroll to the end for "Superfluid 3 He in Cosmology The topological objects in the order parameter field of super- fluid 3 He, such as textural point defects, quantized vortex lines, and solitons, are in many respects similar to monopoles, strings, and domain walls in relativistic quantum field theories (3, 4, 23, 24). In high-energy physics these objects are still hypothetical, whereas in the case of superfluid 3 He they can be observed experimentally. Here we discuss just one example: an experiment modeling developments in the early universe. The study (67, 68) involves creation of vortices by absorption of neutrons in rotating superfluid 3 He-B."